I have a younger sister and a younger brother. I am the eldest sister and the youngest brother. In the words of the little sister, she is superfluous and back-to-back. It's a joke, but it's also true. My parents are patriarchal, and after having me, they hope to have a son. The second child is a girl again, so the little sister is not taken seriously.
The key little sister is not angry, knowing that she is here to make up the numbers, and her health is not good. Since childhood, he has been frail and sickly, and often has colds. This is all a trivial matter, she has a disease, and the professional name can't be called, the doctor said that there is a slow neurological development, other children grow up at the age of two or three, and the little sister has not grown well when she is 7 years old. When she has a fever or is excited, she will have convulsions, which is known as epilepsy. In fact, it is a symptom of epilepsy, epilepsy cannot be cured, and the little sister was completely cured when she was 8 years old.
My mother is a rural woman with little education, but she believes in the doctor's words and firmly believes that her little sister will be fine. Due to physical reasons, the little sister has been pampered more, surpassing the little brother and me. Usually we let Xiaomei not make her angry, we can't grab things from her, so that she can keep her emotionally stable.
The little sister had a bad fate, she failed the college entrance examination that year and was not admitted to a public-funded school. The self-funded tuition fee is 8 times that of the public fund, I am 500 yuan a year, and the self-funded tuition fee is 4000. A rural family couldn't afford it, so Xiaomei went to work. At that time, there was a BB machine, and my little sister worked at the pager, and the salary was quite high, so it was a pretty job.
The little sister is beautiful, 163 meters tall, not fat or thin, a pair of smiling eyes, and dimples. Plus you will dress up when you work in a big city. There was a boy in the city who liked her, but it was an era of hukou attention, and there was a big gap between urban and rural areas. The boy's parents were adamantly against it. The love between the two dragged on for eight years and ended without a problem.
The nearly 30-year-old little sister became an older leftover girl and left that sad place. returned to the small county town of her hometown and met her current husband. His husband's family is poor and he has three brothers. He graduated from a junior college, was assigned to an enterprise, caught up with the buyout seniority, and was laid off after three years of work. He was three years older than Xiaomei, and when he met Xiaomei, he was working in a relative's shop. College and high school are more compatible, and the age is similar, and the younger sister got married when she was 30 years old. After marriage, they had a daughter, and the relationship between the couple was also very good. It's just that the financial luck is not good, I opened a store by myself, and I didn't make any money, so I had to work for my relatives.
In a blink of an eye, my little sister is 49 years old, and her daughter is studying in college. In the past two years, the real estate has been sluggish, and the building materials market has been sluggish. The relative's building materials store could only leave them alone. After discussion, it was decided that my brother-in-law would stay because he was introverted and had 10 years before retirement. My little sister has a cheerful personality and can speak well, so it will be easier to find a job again. But it's really hard to find a job now, and it's even more difficult for middle-aged people. Generally, it is required to be under 45 years old, and there is no skill to clean it, and the key to such work as the kitchen is low wages.
The little sister calculated an account, he and his brother-in-law got 2,000 yuan a month for insurance, his daughter's college living expenses and tuition fees were 2,000 yuan a month, and the family had a car of 500 yuan. This is a fixed expense and cannot be delinquent. In addition to living expenses, 2,000 yuan for personal contacts, 6,500 yuan a month, in case there is a headache and brain fever. The brother-in-law's salary is 4,500 yuan a month, and the job that the younger sister is looking for cannot be less than 3,000 yuan. Either the family can't make ends meet. Sometimes I want to help her, but she has a strong sense of self-esteem, and in her own words, it is not easy for anyone to help the poor without helping the poor.
Xiaomei's biggest wish is to retire as soon as possible, even if she opens a thousand yuan to support herself. She envied me and even her in-laws, because we were both retired and had no worries about food and clothing. There are too many helplessness in the world of middle-aged people, there are old people, there are young, and they can't afford to get sick and can't get off work.